I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.